TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shulman,Peter A.
TI  - Coal & empire: the birth of energy security in industrial America 
SN  - 9781421417066 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
AV  - HD 9546 S562c 2015
U1  - 338.2/7240973 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Coal trade
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Comercio del carbón
KW  - Aspectos políticos
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Siglo XIX
KW  - Energy policy
KW  - Política energética
KW  - Historia
KW  - Industrialization
KW  - Industrialización
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1865-
KW  - Relaciones exteriores
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 235-296) and index; Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Empire and the Politics of Information
2. Engineering Economy
3. The Economy of Time and Space
4. The Slavery Solution
5. The Debate over Coaling Station
6. Inventing Logistics
Conclusion
Chronological Listing of Cited Congressional Publicationsfrom the United States Serial Set
NotesBibliographic Essay
Index

N2  - By exploring how the security dimensions of energy were not intrinsically linked to a particular source of power but rather to political choices about America's role in the world, Shulman ultimately suggests that contemporary global struggles over energy will never disappear, even if oil is someday displaced by alternative sources of power
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